Regional anesthesia procedures for shoulder and upper arm surgery upper extremity update-2005 to present

International Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-46

  Sripada, Ramprasad ^a   Bowens, Clifford ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; BUPRENORPHINE; CHLOROPROCAINE; CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; OPIATE; ROPIVACAINE; TRAMADOL;

ANATOMY; ARM; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CATHETER; CLAVICLE; CONSTIPATION; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPHONIA; DYSPNEA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOARSENESS; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMERUS; INNERVATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARACERVICAL BLOCK; PARESIS; PARESTHESIA; PHRENIC BLOCK; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCAPULA; SHOULDER; SHOULDER PAIN; SHOULDER SURGERY; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SPINAL CORD LESION; SUBACROMIAL BLOCK; SUPRASCAPULAR NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASOUND; UPPER ARM SURGERY; URINE RETENTION;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ARM; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SHOULDER;

EID: 84855905226     PISSN: 00205907     EISSN: 15371913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AIA.0b013e31821a0284     Document Type: Article

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